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What is the adjective for driftlessness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb drift which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

adrift
  1. Floating at random.
  2. (seaman) Absent from his watch.
  3. (chiefly Britain, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. drifting, unanchored, unmoored, afloat, aweigh, floating, cast off, lost, confused, bewildered, unsettled, disoriented, disorientated, at sea, all at sea, astray, perplexed, off-course, at a loss, nonplussed, discombobulated, off-track, puzzled, wildered, mazed, going round in circles, out, off course, stray, having lost one's bearings, off the right track, having lost one's way, bemused, flummoxed, stumped, baffled, going in circles, mystified, bamboozled, dumbfounded, fazed, disconcerted, mixed up, in a state of confusion, not knowing whether one is coming or going, in a muddle, at sixes and sevens, thrown, sailing, asea … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The boat was adrift about two hundred yards ahead of me.”
      “I was adrift in a sea of uncertainty.”
      “We could not admit, even to ourselves, that we were losing focus on our dream. Our lives were adrift without a goal.”
drifty
  1. Tending or seeming to drift
  2. (dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.
  3. Examples:
      4. “I've got to make a couple of very hard decisions on a daily basis instead of taking the easy drifty way out.”
      “Albescent shapes played over the walls, teasing hundreds of drifty pleasures from his brain.”
      “There are lots of different stages to appeal to all types of rider, including a gnarly, rooty singletrack stage and a flat out and drifty stage.”
driftless
  1. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. random, aimless, haphazard, desultory, directionless, erratic, indiscriminate, purposeless, blind, capricious, drifting, flighty, goalless, heedless, lost, pointless, vagrant, wandering, careless, objectless … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The rugged driftless area got its name because of early geologists' inability to find evidence of glacial drift.”
      “The region is adjacent to the driftless area, and was glaciated during the Wisconsin glaciation.”
      “A comparison of otherwise similar counties lying within and without the driftless area shows an astonishing contrast.”
drifting
  1. Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. itinerant, wandering, nomadic, peripatetic, migratory, migrant, homeless, rootless, traveling, travelling, roving, roaming, vagrant, vagabond, unsettled, errant, transient, nomad, wayfaring, ranging, rambling, on the move, floating, ambulatory, ambulant, gypsy, mobile, migrating, fugitive, galavanting, gallivanting, perambulatory, peregrine, moving, shifting, touring, displaced, journeying, seasonal, voyaging, footloose, restless, jet-setting, on the wing, on the go, of no fixed abode, meandering, globetrotting, emigrating, immigrant … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The lights above glared down on them all, a rack of suns illuminating a drifting fleet of ships.”
driftier
  1. comparative form of drifty: more drifty
driftiest
  1. superlative form of drifty: most drifty
drifted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of drift
  2. Synonyms:
      3. coasted, floated, flowed, glided, glid, sailed, slid, slipped, bobbed, meandered, rolled, bowled, breezed, brushed, cruised, gravitated, swept, whisked, streamed, flitted, flittered, fluttered, moved slowly, moved gently, went with the tide, gone with the tide, went with the flow, gone with the flow, went with the current, gone with the current, skimmed, skated, skidded, slithered, moved, smoothed along, slewed, planed, aquaplaned, glissaded, flown, flew, run, soared, passed, skirred, freewheeled, tobogganed, skipped, winged … more
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